causalgia

Type II, formerly known as causalgia, has evidence of obvious nerve damage.

Silas Weir Mitchell (February 15, 1829 - January 4, 1914) was an American physician and writer known for his discovery of causalgia.

Mayfield wrote numerous papers and a book about the treatment of causalgia (intense pain resulting from wounds to peripheral nerves) with surgical sympathectomy.

A graduate of Moscow State University (1919), in 1936 he wrote a thesis on "Causalgia treatment" and in 1947 his thesis was on "Intracranial pressure".

In 1993, a special consensus workshop held in Orlando, Florida, provided the umbrella term "complex regional pain syndrome," with causalgia and RSD as subtypes.

According to the IASP, CRPS II (causalgia) is diagnosed as follows:

Health psychology attempts to find treatments to reduce and eliminate pain, as well as understand pain anomalies such as episodic analgesia, causalgia, neuralgia, and phantom limb pain.

The condition currently known as CRPS was originally described by Silas Weir Mitchell during the American Civil War, who is sometimes also credited for inventing the name "causalgia."

In 1872, after the American Civil War the American neurologist Silas Weir Mitchell was the first to observe the correlation between the altered cutaneous fibres and the burning pain that he named causalgia.

Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS), formerly Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy (RSD) or Causalgia, is a chronic systemic disease characterized by severe pain, swelling, and changes in the skin.

Timely corrective surgery for such a scenario, as well as proper pain control during the whole episode, may well be the difference between adding a new area of severe perpetual pain for a type II causalgia patient, or limiting the suffering to the original area.